Dividing card for cigarette boxes



Feb. 21, 1933. e. HVISTENDAHL DIVIDING CARD FOR CIGARETTE BOXES Filed Feb. 24, 1932 F. M M

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GEORG HVISTENIDAHL, OF TONSBERG, NORWAY DIVIDL'N'G CARD FOR CIGARETTE BOXES Application filed February 24, 1932, Serial No. $4,899, and in Norway March 2, 1981.

In the usual cardboard packings for cigarettes, in which the cigarettes are placed in several layers, itis customary to place dividing cards between the separate layers, and these cards are often made in the form of pictures or the like for collectors.

The present invention has for its object a dividing card of this type, and the new feature of the invention consists therein that the card is manufactured of a flexible heat resistant and fireproof material such as thin rolled metal, and is adapted to be bent up alon the edges in order to form a tray, suita Is as an ash tray.

The dividing card may be made in the form of a thin aluminum disc, provided with folding lines at a certain distance from the edges in order to facilitate the forming of a tray. Further the part of the dividin card which is to form the bottom of the as tray may be provided with embossed letters or designs serving the purpose of decoration as well as to lessen the transmission of heat through the ash tray to the supporting table or the like. For the same purpose the lines along which the metal is weakened in order to facilitate bending may be slightly curved in order to give the bottom of the tray a slightly convex shape, whereby it is obtained that the tray will only touch the supporting table with its four corners.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a dividini card,

igure 2 is a perspective view of the tray formed from the card shown in Fi re 1,

Figure 3 is a partial plan view 0 a modification, and

Figure is a pers ctive view of the tray formedmm a car having a corner construction as shown in Figure 3.

Some forms of the invention are illustrated on the drawing. 1 is a perspective view of-a dividing car 1 of the usual rectangular form and Further the disc or card is provided with incisions 3, so that the card ma easily be altered into a shallow rectangu ar tray as rovided with bending lines 2 at a suitable istance from the edges.

incisions it may be provided with weakened lines 4 at each corner in order that the card or disc may be given the form of a tray with sloping edges 5 as illustrated on Fig; 4.

lso the metal disc forming the 'vidin card may be provided only with curv weakened lines at a suitable distance from the edges, in which case the ash tray is formed by pinching the four corners, thereby forming a shallow ash tray with a convex bottom.

I claim:

1. A dividing card for ci arette boxes comprising a disc of flexible, reproof material provided with suitable weakened lines at a certain distance from the edges in order that the card or disc may easily be formed into a shallow ash tray by bending the material alon the weakened lines.

2. A dividing card for cigarette boxes as claimed in claim 1, characterized by that the weakened lines are being curved in order to produce a shallow ash tray with convex bottom.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

GEORG HVlSTENDAHL. 

